KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have been awarded two compensatory draft picks in the 2022 NFL Draft, which begins next month in Las Vegas.
The Chiefs received a third-round pick, No. 103 overall, as compensation for losing Ryan Poles from the front office.
Poles, who is Black, was hired as the new general manager by the Chicago Bears. The compensation was awarded under the NFL's Rooney Rule, which attempts to promote minority hiring in key management positions across the league.
Kansas City also was awarded pick No. 259 as compensation for losing linebacker Damien Wilson.
The Chiefs also lost wide receiver Sammy Watkins in free agency last offseason, but compensation for that loss was canceled out by the team's signing of left guard Joe Thuney.
Kansas City missed out on a second seventh-round comp pick for defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon, because the NFL's Collective Bargaining Agreement caps the number of picks at 32 each season.
"This year, one club, the Kansas City Chiefs, qualified for a compensatory selection under the net loss formula but will not receive that pick because the final numerical value of the CFA who was lost ranked 33rd among the final numerical values of all compensatory selections," the NFL said in a statement announcing the 2022 compensatory draft picks.
The full list of Chiefs draft picks for 2022 includes nine selections:
- First round — No. 30 overall
- Second round — No. 62 overall
- Third round — No. 94 overall
- Third round — No. 103 overall (compensation for Ryan Poles)
- Fourth round — No. 135 overall
- Seventh round — No. 233 overall
- Seventh round — No. 243 overall
- Seventh round — No. 251 overall
- Seventh round — No. 259 overall
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